Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1887-03-20
THE HOTEL FIRE.
SEARCHING The RUINS FOR BODIES.
The Horrible Condition and Suffering Of the
Wounded.
A LIST OF The DEAD and WOUNDED.
A Thorough Investigation Promised,
EendiSh IneendiarieS.


BUFFALO. March 19.-Little can be
| added to-day to what is already known OF
the Richmond Hotel fire OF yesterday.
To the question of How many are
killed." only an indefinite reply can he
made.
The number ofactually known to be
dead and missing Is nine, but the condition
Of ten more of the survivors, now lodged
at the hospitals and at their homes, must
be looked upon as precariOus, and time
only will decide whether they are to be
numbered with the living or the dead.
The surviving victims whose names fol-
low, in the hospital list, are more or less
Frustrated by the shock OF the disaster,
from which some will rally who have Wig
OrOus constitutions. But could one see the
sufferers swathed in lint and cotton band
ages, moaning with the intense agony of
their Scorched and cllcined flesh, he
would number the horrors of the fire at
a greater total than the death list. Some
will lose the flesh from their hands and
feet, and amputation will be unavoidable.
ID pyGmia does not then enSue, it will be
miraculous.
The following are the known dead:
Wilson Purcell, resident broker, for
merly with K. G.. Dun x Co. Kate Wolf,
= servant Mt the Richmond; Henry Il.
RumSey, Of New York, died at | :45 o'clock
this morning at the Fitch Accident Hos
pital, He would have escaped with slight
injuries had he not gone back to save little
Jennie Mann.
The list Of missing who are believed TO
have perished is rs follows:
Mark b, Osborne, day clerk at the Rich
mOnd; Katie Kent, a servant; Mary Welch,
a servant; J. b. Acker, Delaware, Lack
awanna and Western railroad official, of
Scranton; Minnie Kelly, servant; Hiram
EenediCt, Jr., son of Hiram Benedict, OF
the Buffalo Lubricating Oil Company.
The following are those still at the hos
pitals and their condition:
At the Sisters Hospital-AIary Nolan,
servant; badly burned about face, hands,
feet; Maggie Mnlrach, servant; face, neck
and breast burned; Fanny Harvey, a ser
want, burned about face, hands and feet;
e.. +. MichaclS, commercial traveller, ankle
sprained and bad confusion of face, caused
by fall At the General Hcspital-NelliC
Wrlch. servant, burned about face and
hands; Minnie Neller, servant; face and
hands burned; Mrs. Kate Pierce, servant;
badly burned: Clinton Bidwell, resident
agent for the Dupont Powder Company;
seriously burned; Matthew shannon,
houseman at the Richmond, badly burned.
At the Fitch Accident HoSpital-Freder-
lex h Moore, Cleveland, severely burned;
VIM. A. Havene, Helena, Mont, Chief
Engineer of the Northern Pacific, seriously
burned about iace, hands and feet; Edwin
A. Finck, Scranton, Pa, painful burns
about feet hands aud face; Z. NJ. Dubois,
general agent OF Commercial Insurance
Co, Syracuse, severe burns cover almost
his whole body; Jacob Kahn, OF
New York, spine fractured by
fall; Mary White, hOusekeeper, pain
full burns on arms and face. At Emer-
grncy HOSpital-Barry Davis will lose one
foot. if not his lite; Edward Whelan, trav-
cling salesman; his life hangs by thread;
N. K. Smith, insurance adiuSter, painfully
burned on legs, feet and hands; William }.
Mackay, insurance agent, Niagara Falls,
injured by fall.
In addition to the above are quite
number of injured who were taken to their
homes At ll:3O "A body, supposed to be
the remains of Mark Osborne, WAS taken
from the ruins.
THOROUGH INVESTIGATION PROMISED.
Coroner Kenny has empanelled a juryIoi
representative citizens and business men,
and SAYS he will endeavOr to have a
tbnrough Investigation of the Richmond
Hotel disaster.
The body OF Henrp ID. Rumsey, OF New
York, who died at | 80 a. m, at the Fitch
Hospital, was given in charge of his broth
erin law, T.. C. EdgartOn, OF Fort Wayne,
aud a friend, Edward Mead, Jr., OF New
York. The deceased was ~ years old,
and was connected with the United States
navy. His parents reside ut Santa Pc, y.
NJ. aud his wife and daughter ut Fort
Wayne, Ind, where the remains will be
taken. lie has a son in the United States
navy stationed at Madeira.
Mr.. Goodrich, of New York, reported
missing, has been heard from at Cleveland
Ohio.
The following are now included among
the missing: Mr.. Johnson, OF Toronto,
railroad man. He was reported AZ missing
Yesterday, but his name was removed from
the list, as there WAS some doubt OF his
being in the hotel 1t is now believed ne
was there.
Joseph Sayre, of Erie, PA. :,
I G. Pratt, of Albany The last named
WAS known to have. been at the Richmond
and has not been heard from since the hre.
The police are investigating the startling
rrport OF "A tiendiSh attempt To burn the
Williams block, at Virginia and CEfN
streets. occupied by about dozen dlter-
rnt families. IL now appears that one oi
the occupants sent her daughter INTO
the cellar TO get pail of coal, about dln-
per time. On the way the child nOtleeu
the smell Of smoke and proceeding To the
coal bin found q pile of kindlng wood
partIy saturated with kerosene blazing
rather briskly among the Goals She with
other children who accompanied her sue
ceeded in putting out the fire, burning
their hands in doing it. The matter had
apparently been arranged and set on hre
by an ineendiary, who cOuld only nave
committed the deed few moments before
the discovery. There are other rumors oil
similar incendiary attempts.
Arbitration i'm Chicago.
CHICAGO, March 19.-IOhn Jarrett came
here Yesterday from Pittsburg to arbitrate
some demands made by the men employed